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SUMMARY:Writing Peers Summer Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 21 June 2024\nEntry Fee: $14.99 per entry\nPrizes: $1\,000 ($500 for the winner of each genre)\nWord Limit: 2\,000 words\nJudge: Judged by fellow competition entrants\nThemes/Genres: Receive 5 writing prompts\, choose one and turn it into a story in an original and compelling way.\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website: writingpeers.com/summer-short-story\n\nThe latest writing competition from Writing Peers is very different to most contests\, so be sure to familiarise yourself with how it works on their website. \nThe main difference to your average competitions are that whenever you register\, on 22nd June you’ll be randomly assigned a genres along with five prompts\, of which you choose one to incorporate in your story. Then you have six days in which to write and edit your story… and then the fun begins! \nThere follows five rounds of judging. In each round\, entrants will receive two stories from genres they weren’t allocated. You will then need to give feedback for each of the stories and pick your winner. The votes are totted up from the five rounds and the winner for each genre is announced on 30th July 2024. \nOne of the best things about this competition is that you will receive plenty of feedback on your entry from your peers which can be very useful even if you don’t end up winning the competition. Reading lots of other entries is also a fine way to pick out the things that work and don’t work in these genres. \nSo if you fancy getting involved in a writing competition with a difference\, this could be the one for you.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/writing-peers-competition/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:The Moth Short Story Prize 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 30 June 2024\nEntry Fee: €15 per story\nPrizes: 1st prize: €3\,000; 2nd prize: a week at Circle of Misse plus open travel stipend; 3rd prize: €1\,000\nWord Limit: 3\,000 words\nJudge: Louise Kennedy (award-winning writer of novels and stories)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: themothmagazine.com\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Moth Short Story Prize offers a very appealing €3\,000 prize\, which is well worth gunning for. The second prize is a week’s break at the Circle of Misse creative retreat\, which third prize is a tasty €1\,000.  \nThe judge for the competition is Louise Kennedy\, whose novel\, Trespasses\, won the McKitterick Prize\, Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards\, the John McGahern Prize and the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of a collection of short stories\, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac. She has written for The Guardian\, the Irish Times and BBC Radio 4. Before becoming a writer\, she worked as a chef for almost thirty years.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/moth-short-story-prize/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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